Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed)
4:00 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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If we are to go the route of a code of practice, it must be simple and practical. It should be a layman's law and understandable to people. It should be widely disseminated as nobody wants to be caught out because they do not know about something. The idea of a code of practice is that it should be generally known and agreed by the sector involved. There should be a layman's understanding of good practice rather than something written in legalese, which can be fairly impenetrable.